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Chicago's new Negroes : modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / Davarian L. Baldwin.

By: Baldwin, Davarian LMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill ; University of North Carolina Press, 2007Description: 363 p. PBKISBN: 9780807857991; 0807857998 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780807830994 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) - Population - History - 20th century | African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century | African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) - Social conditions - 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) - History - 1875- | Chicago (Ill.) - Race relations - History - 20th century | Migration, Internal - United States - History - 20th centuryDDC classification: 305.896 BAL
Contents:
Introduction. "Chicago has no intelligentsia?": consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?
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<p>Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-353) and index.</p>

Introduction. "Chicago has no intelligentsia?": consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. The crisis of the Black bourgeoisie, or, What If Harold Cruse had lived in Chicago?

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